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Tips for Report Builder Usage Report Builder is supported in SharePoint integrated mode and can be launched from SharePoint sites to create new reports or to edit existing reports and re

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Managing Shared Schedules

FIGURE 36.11 Manage Report History menu

You must be a site administrator to manage shared schedules on a SharePoint site

To create shared schedules, click Site Actions at the upper right on the site, pick SiteSettings, Modify All Site Settings, and then click Manage Shared Schedules under theReporting Services section (see Figure 36.12)

Click Add Schedule to create a shared schedule You can specify a descriptive name,frequency, and a start and end date (see Figure 36.13)

Shared schedules rely on the SQL Server Agent service Once the schedule is created, reportsand subscriptions associated with the schedule are triggered to run in a timely fashion The

FIGURE 36.12 Manage shared schedules

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ptgFIGURE 36.13 Create shared schedules.

FIGURE 36.14 Pause and resume shared schedules

shared schedule can be paused or resumed (see Figure 36.14) If it is paused, reports

execu-tions associated with the schedule will not get triggered until the schedule is resumed

Managing Subscriptions

There is a Manage Subscriptions menu option when you select a report from the

SharePoint document library Subscriptions enable you to receive reports through a variety

of delivery methods beyond the simple interactive report execution via a browser

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Subscription delivery methods include the following:

Email: Send a report via email You can also configure fields such as To, CC, BCC,

and Subject

Windows File Share: Send a report to a Windows file share with the filename and

security credentials

Null Delivery Provider: Generate subscriptions that preload the report cache This

can help increase report performance

SharePoint Document Library: Send reports to a specified SharePoint document

library

NOTE

You must configure your report data source to use stored credentials or the unattendedreport-processing account as a prerequisite to creating subscriptions on the report Thecredentials can be a Windows user account or a database user account

Figure 36.16 shows the UI for creating a standard subscription

Data-driven subscriptions (DDS) are more powerful and have been enabled for SharePoint integrated mode in Reporting Services 2008 DDS provide a way to dynamically filter results,

decide on an output format, and generate a list of subscribers at runtime

The DDS feature is available only in the SQL Server Developer and Enterprise editions andnot available in Standard, Web, or Express editions

Besides report and delivery extension information, a DDS includes information such asthe subscriber data source and query to use for generating the dynamic subscription infor-mation at runtime

FIGURE 36.15 Manage subscriptions

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ptgFIGURE 36.16 Standard subscription in SharePoint integrated mode.

Figures 36.17 through 36.20 show the various steps in the SharePoint UI for setting up a

DDS from the Create a Data-Driven Subscription option

Step 1 is to define the data source and query that will provide the dynamic list of

recipi-ents, delivery settings, and report parameter values for each recipient

Step 2 is to specify the parameter values to use with the report subscription It can be the

report default, a static value, or a dynamic value returned from the query specified in step 1

Step 3 is to specify the delivery options to use with the report subscription, including

loca-tion and rendering format

Step 4 is to specify the schedule for delivering the subscription Delivery time can be based

on a shared schedule, customized schedule, or whenever a report snapshot is created

Once a data driven subscription is created, when you click it to view details in SharePoint,

there is a nice summary page that can be used to view and edit the various parts of the

subscription, such as data definition, parameters, delivery options, and scheduling info

(see Figure 36.21)

SharePoint Document Management

One of the key advantages of SSRS integration with SharePoint is that you can leverage

popular SharePoint document management features such as versioning, content approval,

alerts, permissions, and workflows

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SharePoint Document Management

FIGURE 36.17 Create a data-driven subscription in SharePoint integrated mode: Step 1

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ptgFIGURE 36.19 Create a data-driven subscription in SharePoint integrated mode: Step 3.

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Summary

FIGURE 36.21 Create a data-driven subscription in SharePoint integrated mode: Summary

For example, you can send an alert every time a report definition is updated on theSharePoint site in the same way SharePoint enables you to send alerts when a Word orExcel file is updated

No wonder that IT departments want to deploy SSRS in SharePoint integrated mode Usersare already trained in uploading, sharing, and securing documents via SharePoint, andthey can now treat reports just like any other document and take advantage of SharePointdocument management features

If you are new to SharePoint and want to learn more, you can find a helpful white paper

on SharePoint document management at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=92638

Summary

Report management is done in the SharePoint UI via the menu options on reports in theSharePoint document library These include the management of report properties, permis-sions, data sources, parameters, processing options, history, schedules, and subscriptions

DDS support has been enabled in SharePoint integrated mode with the Reporting Services

2008 release

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Data Sources in SharePoint

Report Models in SharePoint

Report Builder 2.0

Tips for Report Builder Usage

Report Builder is supported in SharePoint integrated mode

and can be launched from SharePoint sites to create new

reports or to edit existing reports and report models

By default, SSRS 2008 RTM release shipped with Report

Builder 1.0, which relies on building reports on top of

models If you want to use Report Builder 2.0, you can

install SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 and get 2.0 with

Click Once capability More information is available later in

this chapter

As part of the SSRS add-in for SharePoint installation, new

content types for Report Builder Report, Report Model, and

Report Data Source are made available to SharePoint These

content types can be added to any document library to

enable creating new documents of these types in that

library If you have a new document library that you want

to enable with SSRS content types, go to the library settings,

select Add from Existing Site Content Types, and select the

reporting content types (see Figure 37.1)

When you go to the New menu on the document library,

you will now see options to create a new Report Builder

Report, Report Data Source, or Report Model (see Figure 37.2)

Thus, the end user is enabled to do ad hoc reporting by

creating data sources, models, and Report Builder reports

directly on the SharePoint site

NOTE

With SSRS integration, the correct menu option in the

SharePoint document library for creating new ad hoc

reports is called New Report Builder Report

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ptgFIGURE 37.1 Add SSRS content types to a SharePoint document library.

FIGURE 37.2 New menu options for report items in a SharePoint document library

Do not get confused by a default New Report menu item that shows up in SharePoint

Reports Center It is a SharePoint-specific concept, and it does not refer to SSRS

reports Instead, use the New Report Builder Report menu option for your ad hoc

reporting needs

Report Builder Reports in SharePoint

When the New Report Builder Report menu option is selected, it will start the download

of a click-once Report Builder application from the Report Server in SharePoint Integrated

mode (see Figure 37.3)

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Report Builder Reports in SharePoint

FIGURE 37.3 Click-once installation of Report Builder from Report Server

With SSRS 2008, Report Server has a property setting called ReportBuilderLaunchURL.Based on the value of this property set by the administrator, the Report Builder 1.0 orReport Builder 2.0 application may get downloaded for the end user Report Builder 1.0reports need to be created against report models, whereas Report Builder 2.0 reports can becreated from scratch Figure 37.4 shows a new Report Builder 1.0 report being createdagainst an existing report model

After the report has been developed, the Save option allows publishing the report directly

to the SharePoint document library as an RDL file (see Figure 37.5)

FIGURE 37.4 Report Builder 1.0 launched from SharePoint to create an ad hoc report

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ptgFIGURE 37.5 Save the Report Builder report by publishing to a SharePoint document library.

FIGURE 37.6 Edit a report from a SharePoint document library in Report Builder

In the same spirit, reports that are already published on the SharePoint document library

can be opened in Report Builder for editing and then be resaved This is done by selecting

a report and choosing Edit in Report Builder (see Figure 37.6)

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Data Sources in SharePoint

An RSDS file represents a report data source, and it is generally created via Report Designer

or Model Designer, from where it can be published to a SharePoint library A new shareddata source can also be created directly from the SharePoint document library Figure 37.2showed the Report Data Source option available on a SharePoint document library Thisbrings up a SharePoint page for creating a shared report data source (see Figure 37.7)

Note that the SharePoint Data Connections document library is a logical place to save theshared report data sources However, you can save them in any document library wherereporting content types are enabled

NOTE

It is also possible for reports in SharePoint integrated mode to use Office DataConnection (ODC) files rather than report data sources in limited scenarios (such asconnecting to OLE DB or ODBC data sources) If you have existing ODC files that youwant to use with reports, be sure to first review the limitations by reading the MicrosoftSQL Server Books Online article titled “How to Use an Office Data Connection (.odd)with Reports” at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326418.aspx

FIGURE 37.7 Create a new report data source from a SharePoint document library

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ptgFIGURE 37.8 Create a new Report Builder model from a SharePoint document library.

Report Models in SharePoint

Report Builder 1.0 requires reports to be built on top of report models An SMDL file

repre-sents a Report Builder model, and it is generally created via Model Designer, from where it

can be published to a SharePoint library New Report Builder models can also be created

directly from the SharePoint document library Figure 37.2 showed the Report Builder

Model option available on a SharePoint document This brings up a SharePoint page for

creating a model (see Figure 37.8)

Creation of a Report Builder model requires a shared data source to be available on the

SharePoint site The rules for the model generation are pretty much hidden from the user’s

perspective After the model has been generated, there is an option to regenerate it if needed

Report Builder 2.0

Report Builder 2.0 delivers an Office-like report-authoring environment and supports most

of the report designer functionality found via Business Intelligence Development Studio

(BIDS) Chapter 18, “Ad Hoc Reporting,” has more information about Report Builder 2.0

If you are using the SSRS 2008 RTM release, you won’t find Report Builder 2.0 in the box

It was made available as a web download after the RTM release The download link is

available from www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/report-builder.aspx

NOTE

We recommend installation of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 on top of your SSRS

2008 RTM deployment because the service pack includes Reporting Builder 2.0 with

Click Once capability To download the service pack, go to: www.microsoft.com/down

loads and search for “SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1.”

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There is a new property in SSRS 2008 for Report Server called ReportBuilderLaunchURL

that can be modified to point to Report Builder 2.0 rather than the default for ReportBuilder 1.0

To enable Report Builder to launch from a SharePoint document library when using formsauthentication, follow these steps:

1 Add the following entries to theWeb.configfile for the SharePoint web applicationswhere you want to allow Report Builder to be launched from your reports docu-ment libraries:

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3 For information about LCIDs and cultures supported by the Reporting Services

add-in for SharePoadd-int, refer to the Install folder under %programfiles%\CommonFiles\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\ISAPI\ReportBuilder

4 Enable anonymous access on the ReportBuilder folder via IIS Manager For more

information, see “How to Enable Anonymous Access on the ReportBuilder Folder” athttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms365173(SQL.90).aspx

If users encounter an HTTP 401or400error when launching Report Builder with basic

authentication, you need to ensure that users select the Remember Password check box

when they see the User Credentials dialog box at login time The root cause is that the

login via the User Credentials dialog box results in SharePoint creating a

WSS_KeepSessionAuthenticatedcookie to ensure this user remains authenticated for the

duration of the session Report Builder is launched using click-once, which is not aware of

thisWSS_KeepSessionAuthenticatedcookie and results in this error from SharePoint

during launch of Report Builder

Summary

Ad hoc reporting is supported in SharePoint via Report Builder, which enables SharePoint

users to create new reports or edit existing reports from the SharePoint document library

Report Builder reports are built on top of data sources and report models

The SSRS add-in for SharePoint adds new content types on the SharePoint site for reports,

report data sources, and Report Builder models This enables creation and sharing of these

report items in the SharePoint document library These report items can then be used via

Report Builder for ad hoc reporting

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APPENDIX A

References and Additional Reading

MSDN Websites

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/

cc514207.aspx

MSDN aggregator page for SQL Server Reporting

Services (has links to newsgroups, blogs, white papers,videos, and tutorials)

Scaling Up Reporting Services 2008 vs Reporting

Services 2005: Lessons Learned

Reporting Services Scale-Out Deployment Best

Practices

Reporting Services Performance Optimizations

Reporting Services Scale-Out Architecture

New Best Practices Articles Published - Scaling Up

Reporting Services 2008 vs Reporting Services 2005:

SQL Server Reporting Services

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Report Server Catalog Best Practices

Technet Webcast: Building SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 Large-Scale Solutions

(Level 400)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Samples

www.codeplex.com/MSFTRSProdSamples/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=18649

SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 Forum

If you get stuck, you can get your questions answered at http://social.msdn.microsoft

Data visualization blogs

http://blogs.msdn.com/seanboonhttp://blogs.msdn.com/alexgor/

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SharePoint Integration Links

Former group program manager’s bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/bwelcker

BI consultant bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/bimusings

White Papers

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Overview

4168b65aaa71/RSinSQL2008.doc

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/c/d/acd8e043-d69b-4f09-bc9e- SQL Server 2005 Integration with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/7/a/47a548b9-249e-484c-abd7-SharePoint Integration Links

Learn about SharePoint integrated modehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281021.aspx

Configure Reporting Services integration with SharePointhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326356.aspx

White paper: SQL Server 2005 Integration with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb969100.aspx

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Additional Books

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed

By Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed (Sams Publishing, 2008)ISBN: 0672330016

www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672330016

Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability

By Allan Hirt (Apress, 2007)ISBN: 159059780X

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Step by Step

By Scott Cameron (Microsoft Press, 2009)ISBN: 0735626200

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APPENDIX B

Glossary

action

An end-user-initiated operation that, for example, can

launch another report, open a URL, or transfer focus to a

bookmark

aggregate function

A function that performs a summary calculation on a series

of data and returns a single value Each aggregate function

uses the Scopeparameter, which defines the scope (such as

grouping, data set, or data region) in which the aggregate

function is performed

assembly

A managed application module that contains class metadata

and managed code

authentication

The process of validating that the user attempting to

connect to Reporting Server is authorized to do so

authorization

The operation that verifies the permissions and access rights

granted to a user to securable report items, such as folders,

reports, (report) models, resources, and shared data sources

BIDS

Abbreviation for SQL Server Business Intelligence

Development Studio

collation

A set of rules that determine how strings of character data

are compared, ordered, and presented Character data is

sorted using collation information, including locale, sort

order, and case sensitivity

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column

In a table, the area in each row that stores the data value for some attribute of the object

presented in the table For example, in an Employeetable, a FirstNamecolumn would

contain the first name of an employee

Common Language Runtime (CLR)

The engine that supplies managed code with services such as cross-language integration,

code access security, object lifetime management, and debugging and profiling support

configuration

In SSRS, a name/value pair that controls certain behaviors of SSRS, such as directing SSRS

to load specified extensions or to use a specified encryption key

connection

An interprocess communication (IPC) linkage established between a SQL Server

applica-tion and an instance of SQL Server

connection string

A string supplied to a data provider that provides information sufficient to connect to the

data An example of a connection string is Data Source=MyServer\MyInstance;initial

catalog=AdventureWorksDW

constant

A group of symbols that represent a specific data value For example, ’abc’is a character

string constant, ’123’is an integer constant, ’April 19, 1999’is a date-time constant,

and’0x02FA’is a binary constant

cube

A set of data that is organized and summarized into a multidimensional structure defined

by a set of dimensions and measures

custom report item

A custom report item extends rendering capabilities of the Report Definition Language

(RDL) Some of the custom report items that you can purchase (not included as standard

items in SSRS) are map, calendar, barcode, and other controls

data mart

A subset of the contents of a data warehouse A data mart tends to contain data focused at

the department level, or on a specific business area

data-processing extension

A component in Reporting Services that provides query processing and data retrieval for a

data source type that can be used in a report

data set

A set of data that is the result of executing Transact-SQL SELECT, Data Mining Expressions

(DMX), or Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) statements

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APPENDIX B Glossary

data source

An object containing information about the location of data The data source leverages a

connection string See connection string.

Data Source view

An abstraction layer for a data source Data Source view acts similarly to SQL Server viewand allows joining multiple tables from a data source, creating calculated fields, and

“renaming” fields from a data source Data Source view describes this abstraction in XMLand does not cause any modification to a data source

data type

An attribute that specifies what type of information can be stored in a column, parameter,

or variable There are two different data types: system supplied and user defined

decision supportThe systems designed to support the complex analytic analysis required to discover busi-ness trends for managerial decision making

default

A value (data value, option setting, collation, or name) assigned or an action taken matically by the system if a user does not specify the value or the action

auto-default databaseThe database the user is connected to immediately after logging in to SQL Server

default instanceThe copy of SQL Server that uses the computer name on which it is installed as its name

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An action or a technique used to retrieve the detailed data by (for example, clicking a

report item that contains summarized data)

enterprise

The word enterprise is used in several different connotations throughout this book When

enterprise describes a business, it implies (according to Encarta dictionary) “organized

business activities aimed specifically at growth and profit.” According to the definition, an

enterprise could be a company with a few employees or thousands of employees

However, typically, people think of an enterprise as a company that has a hierarchical

management structure; division of responsibilities, such as operations, financial, sales,

marketing, and so on; and more than a handful of employees

Enterprise Edition

An edition of a product that provides more powerful features than a product labeled as

“standard.” In addition to providing extended features, “enterprise” products are also

designed to handle large user loads, scale up (use more memory and a large number of

CPUs), scale out (have the capability of adding more servers to the installation), and have

provisions for high availability

expression

In SSRS, a combination of variables, constants, functions, and operators that evaluate to a

single data value Simple expressions can be a constant, variable, column, or scalar

func-tion Complex expressions are one or more simple expressions connected by operators

fact

A row in a fact table in a data warehouse A fact contains values that define a data event

such as a sales transaction

fact table

A central table in a data warehouse schema that contains numeric measures and keys

relating facts to dimension tables Fact tables contain data that describes specific events

within a business, such as bank transactions or product sales

field

An area in a data set that stores a single data value

foreign key (FK)

The column or combination of columns whose values match the primary key (PK) or

unique key in the same or another table

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Transact-SQL supplies built-in functions, which cannot be modified, and supports defined functions, which can be created and modified by users.

user-Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

A system of marking up a document so that it can be published on the World Wide Web

HTML provides formatting tags and can be viewed using a web browser (such as MicrosoftInternet Explorer)

A column referenced by a primary, foreign, or index key

Tiêu đề	Managing Shared Schedules in SQL Server Reporting Services
Trường học	University of Microsoft
Chuyên ngành	Database Management and Reporting Services
Thể loại	Thesis
Năm xuất bản	2008
Thành phố	Redmond

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